SETI: Card Tier List
All 138 base cards and the alien cards, ranked with Ender Wiggin’s resource model. 1 credit equals 1 energy, 2 data, 2 publicity, 2 moves, and 5 VP. A deck card is 0.75, a card from the row is 1, and an alien card is 1.5. A tech is 3 credits, a trace is 2, and a signal is 1.
Base cards
A tier
- Algonquin Radio Observatory
- Effelsberg Telescope Construction
- FAST Telescope Construction
- Ion Propulsion System
- Low-Power Microprocessors
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Planet Hunters
- Falcon Heavy
- Green Bank Telescope
- Space Launch System
B tier
- Perseverance Rover
- Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
- GMRT Telescope Construction
- PLATO
- Planetary Geologic Mapping
- Scientific Cooperation
- Apollo 11 Mission
- DUNE
- ODINUS Mission
- Onsala Telescope Construction
- Project Longshot
- SHERLOC
- ALICE
- Future Circular Collider
- Large Hadron Collider
- Starship
- Yevpatoria Telescope Construction
- PIXL
- Roman Space Telescope
- ATLAS
- Focused Research
- Euclid Telescope Construction
- NEAR Shoemaker
- Dragonfly
- Gravitational Slingshot
- Coronal Spectrograph
- Electron Microscope
- Exascale Supercomputer
- Lunar Gateway
C tier
- Quantum Computer
- Asteroids Flyby
- Atmospheric Entry
- Asteroids Research
- Pioneer 11 Mission
- Mariner 10 Mission
- Europa Clipper
- OSIRIS-REx
- Allen Telescope Array
- Clean Space Initiative
- Orbiting Lagrange Point
- Barnard's Star Observation
- Kepler 22 Observation
- Procyon Observation
- Vega Observation
- 61 Virginis Observation
- Galileo Mission
- Proxima Centauri Observation
- Sirius A Observation
- Breakthrough Listen
- Breakthrough Starshot
- Breakthrough Watch
- Grant
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Kepler Space Telescope
- Low-Cost Space Launch
- NIAC Program
- Noto Radio Observatory
- Press Statement
- Telescope Modernization
- Voyager 2 Mission
- Wow! Signal
- Cassini Probe
- Cometary Encounter
- Deep Synoptic Array
- Jupiter Flyby
- Mars Flyby
- Mercury Flyby
- Parkes Observatory
- VERITAS Telescopes
- Strategic Planning
- Jupiter Exploration Program
- Mars Exploration Program
- Mercury Exploration Program
- Saturn Exploration Program
- Venus Exploration Program
- ALMA Observatory
- Beta Pictoris Observation
- Space Shuttle
- International Collaboration
- Venus Flyby
- Chandra Space Observatory
- Herschel Space Observatory
- ISS
- Mars Science Laboratory
- Tardigrades Study
- Very Large Array
- Uranus Orbiter and Probe
- Trident Probe
- Lightsail
- NASA Research Center
- Saturn Flyby
- SETI Institute
- Fuel Tanks Construction
- Giant Magellan Telescope
- Great Observatories Project
- Extremophiles Study
- Trajectory Correction
- Canadian Hydrogen Telescope
- Linguistic Analysis
- Lovell Telescope
- Amateur Astronomers
- First Black Hole Photo
- Juno Probe
- MESSENGER Probe
- Optimal Launch Window
- Venera Probe
- Advanced Navigation System
- Johnson Space Center
- Arecibo Observatory
- NASA Image of the Day
- Near-Earth Asteroids Survey
- Pre-launch Testing
- SETI Data Archive
- Square Kilometre Array
- Through the Asteroid Belt
- Popularization of Science
- Hayabusa
- SETI@Home
D tier
- Rosetta Probe
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- Cape Canaveral SFS
- Control Center
- Cornell University
- Telescope Time Allocation
- Fusion Reactor
- Government Funding
- Solvay Conference
- Sample Return
Alien cards
A tier
- Hivemind Concept
- Telescope Blueprints
- The Queen
- Rover Exploration
- Exofossil Samples
- Breeding Sample
- Probe Customisation
- First Contact
B tier
- Computer Simulations
- Hive Sample
- Orbital Monitoring
- Martian Quarantine Lab
- Message Capsule
- Part of Everyday Life
- Mass Sample Collection
- Fission-sun Exoplanet
- Oscillating Probes
- Razor-edge Shuttle
- Excavation Rover
- Flooding the Media Space
- Infocluster
- Vessel Designs
C tier
- Terrain Mapping
- Exofossil Discovery
- Casette Deployment
- Core-breach Exoplanet
- Deflector
- Generative Infrastructure
- Listening Carefully
- New Physics
- Pierced Exoplanet
- Race Against Time
- Vortex Exoplanet
- Alien Schematics
- Close-up View
- Exocomputers
- Torrent-chain Signal
- Music of the Spheres
- Signs of Life
- Concerned People
- A Message from Afar
- Comparative Analysis
- Ecosystem Study
- Altered Trajectory
- Synthesis Instructions
D tier
- Perfect Timing
- Automated Lab
- Expender Core
- Extractor
- Nanowielder Node
- Neuralab
- Stratoelevator
- Visitor in the Sky
- Amazing Uncertainty
- Are we Being Observed?